I have a home network that can almost be set up as flat, and I know EdgeRouter 8-port is an overkill in my situation (my old home-grade router died and got an ER-8 free from a family member Image may be NSFW.
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, and as an admission, I'm not a network engineer and don't do these kind of work for living, so excuse my novicelike expose here). I have the following devices I would like to connect to the network:
- 2 Desktops
- 2 Laptops
- 2 PDA's
- 1 Printer (Brother DCP-7065DN)
- 1 WiFi Access Point (D-Link DAP-2660)
I have no other switch or bridge in my possession. I used the Basic Setup wizard and Dashboard to setup the following:
- eth0 WAN (incoming from cable modem)
- eth1 1st desktop on 192.168.1.x subnet (DHCP)
- eth2 WiFi AP on 192.168.2.x subet (DHCP) - the AP acts as a bridge with its LAN set to 192.168.2.50 and I let the router assign IPs dynamically (192.168.2.138-192.168.2.199)
- eth3 Printer on 192.168.3.x subset (Statically set in Dashboard to 192.168.3.2/24 IP)
- eth4 2nd Desktop on 192.168.4.x subnet (DHCP)
I can connect all my laptops and PDAs on both 2 GHz and 5 GHz bands. I have also manually set the networking settings on my printer to IP 192.168.3.2, Submask 255.255.255.0, and Gateway 192.168.3.1. My printer supports the following services:
- BINARY_P1
- TEXT_P1
- POSTSCRIPT_P1
- PCL_P1
Presumably (excuse my lack of knowledge with Vyatta, or any other firewall software and ruleset for that matter), the last thing that is left is to update the firewall ruleset.
How can I allow all other interfaces to have access to the printer (but only from inside the LAN but not externally)?
